Implantable loop recorders: Dollars and sense

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 502-504

  Kürer, Cheryl C ^a,b  

^a HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Pediatric Center for Heart Disease   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA STENOSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRADYCARDIA; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVICE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEAD TILTING; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HEART DILATATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MORBIDITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; RECORDER; SYNCOPE;

EID: 10744228621     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(03)00660-0     Document Type: Editorial

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